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John A. Moretta earned a B.A. in History and Spanish Foreign Language and Literature from Santa Clara University in CA, an M.A. in History from Portland State University in Oregon, and a Ph.D. in History from Rice University in Houston, TX. He is currently Professor of History and Chair of the History, Philosophy, and Geography Dept. of Central College, Houston Community College System in Houston, Texas. In his twenty years with Central College, Dr. Moretta has won several outstanding college teaching awards and has been nominated fifteen times for Who's Who Among American teachers. Dr. Moretta has also published a book on Texas history, William Pitt Ballinger, Texas Lawyer Southern Statesman, 1825-1888, which was runner-up for the best book in Texas history awarded by the Texas State Historical Association. Dr. Moretta's book did win the best research award given by that same organization for 2001.
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Michael Phillips is a professor of American history at Collin College in Plano, Texas. He specializes in the history of American race and gender relations, politics, religion, and extremist groups. Phillips received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. Phillips revised his award-winning dissertation, subsequently published by the University of Texas Press in 2006 as “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001,” which was awarded the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award for Best Book on Texas History by the Texas Historical Commission in 2007. He also co-authored (with Patrick Cox) The House Will Come to Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics (2010) and contributed essays that appeared in The Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negroes’ Western Experience and Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away From Past Interpretations (both in 2011). He also authored numerous chapters that appear in both volumes of The American Challenge: A New History of the United States, published by Abigail Press.
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Austin Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston and is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston-Downtown where he has taught since 2002. A specialist in the legal history of the antebellum United States, Austin has written a book detailing the origins of the Dred Scott Case and is presently working on a book about the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Doug Cantrell is an Associate Professor of History at Elizabethtown Community College in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he has taught for 13 years. He holds a B.A. from Berea College in History and Political Science, an M.A. from the University of Kentucky, and has completed 30 hours toward the Ph.D. He is the author of numerous journal and encyclopedia articles in the field of immigration and ethnic history. Professor Cantrell also teaches Kentucky and American History courses on the web and is the social science discipline leader for the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest. He is a former editor and past president of the Kentucky Association Teachers of History.
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